Newfoundland and Labrador Mental Health Crisis Line

The Mental Health Crisis Centre provides 24 hour telephone based crisis intervention by professionally trained Crisis Interveners. This confidential service is available toll free across Newfoundland Labrador. This service is open to anyone in crisis; their caregivers or loved ones. The 24 hour crisis line is also available to health professionals on a consultative basis by phone. Crisis can include but is not limited to:

Relationships with family or friends

Addiction Issues

Financial Difficulties

School or work stress

Grief or Loss

Abuse or Traumatic Events

Illness

Mobile Crisis Response Team

The Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) Team is comprised of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and social workers with significant experience in mental health who travel as a team to assist/intervene with mental health related crisis, directly in a person’s home or community. MCR is an extension to other emergency mental health services that currently exist in the St. John’s Metro area and can be accessed, as required, through the Mental Health Crisis Line, the Psychiatric Emergency Service at the Health Sciences Centre and the Psychiatric Assessment Unit at the Waterford hospital.